25.05.2017
- The European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP) has granted interim approval to the recyclability of polyethylenefuranoate (PEF) produced by Synvina, the BASF/Avantium joint venture. The...
16.05.2017
- Even though it is in the throes of finalizing a merger with DuPont, Dow Chemical has announced investments totalling $4 billion over the next five years. Plans include an expansion...
27.03.2017
- US plastics compounder and distributor A. Schulman has announced it will increase production capacity for color masterbatches in Europe in order to meet growing market demand...
13.03.2017
- PMC Biogenix, a developer and manufacturer of specialty chemicals from renewable resources, has expanded capacity for long chain fatty acid intermediates in Memphis, Tennessee, USA...
06.03.2017
- Cascades Sonoco, a manufacturer of coating and laminating technologies for the paper industry, will invest approximately $16 million to expand its facility in Birmingham, Alabama...
03.02.2017
- Dow Chemical has announced plans to sell its ethylene acrylic acid (EEA) copolymers business to South Korea’s SK Global Chemical. The move is part of a plan to shed assets and...
30.01.2017
- In a proposed amendment to the EU’s packaging directive, the Environment Committee (ENVI) of the European Parliament (EP) has come out in favor of increasing the share by weight of...
23.01.2017
- A report first published in January 2016 and presented last week to a global audience at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, calls for a quantum leap in global...
